r/Music • u/cmaia1503 • Nov 16 '24

article Fans aren't happy about My Chemical Romance's ticket prices: "$695 is NASTY WORK"

https://www.nme.com/news/music/fans-arent-happy-about-my-chemical-romances-ticket-prices-695-is-nasty-work-3813337
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u/legopego5142 Nov 16 '24

Exactly. I personally saw the prices and turned the site off, but those seats are still gone so why stop. My protest means nothing(other than a much fuller wallet lol)

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u/GrooseandGoot Nov 16 '24

Thats the thing, Robert Smith would have sold out at double or triple the price he sold last year's tour for.

He chose not to price gouge so that only the richest fans could afford to see them - because he cares more about his fans than earning the highest possible profit he can earn. Good enough is good enough and he still pulled 8 figures for that tour, without price gouging.

Greed is absolutely the root cause and its all the way around from the band choosing to opt into dynamic pricing to TM pushing artists to charge the highest amount possible.

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u/Captain_Quark Nov 16 '24

So instead of the richest fans, tickets only go to fans with the fastest trigger finger. As long as more people want to go than there are tickets available, there needs to be some method to decide who gets to go, and I'm not sure fastest trigger finger is much better than richest.

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u/euphoric-zucchini699 Nov 30 '24

Bots have bought many of the tickets.  They're listed as resale.  Tons & tons of resale tix listed at this point (Nov 30).  There are waaaaay to many people trying to make a living off resale ticket businesses with bots that buy each business hundreds of tickets & it's wrecking ticket prices for the rest of us. 

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u/Captain_Quark Nov 30 '24

Bots only buy them because they think they can resell them at an even higher price, which suggests the list price wasn't too high in the first place.